If Moses was Ankhnaten 2nd son, run out of Egypt by his brother Tutankhamun, does that change anything for X?

Question

for Christians?
Does it mean the Great Amen is Amun-Ra, or some other Sun God from the Egyptian Pagan Pantheon? Were the "Elohim" of the bible just old references to pre Egyptian polytheistic Hebrew gods?

Aten then?

Answer 1

The elohim were personal gods, the "patron" god of the family or clan. Thus when Abraham (and later Jacob) make a covenant with Yahweh, they are saying "Yahweh will be my elohim". I think the Israelites certainly absorbed some of their ideas from the Egyptian culture, but they seemed to be a distinct class, probably a mercenary class, with their own cultural identity. Their ideas were far more in line with those of the Sumerians and ESPECIALLY the Canaanites/Phoenicians.

Peace to you.

Answer 2

There was a popular novel in the 20's called Moses by Louis Untermeyer that made Moses and Ahkenaten "brothers"..with Moses being adopted into the family.

Ahkenaten was " light beyond the sun" and represented by the disc of the sun.

It is just as likely that the religion of the ancient Habiru ( Hebrews ) could have influenced the Egyptian belief. At any rate, Egypt was for a short time ruled by a man who wanted to make Egypt monotheistic..but he failed.

Elohim is the Hebrew word meaning "supreme deity". By the time of the writing of the Torah, the word no longer made reference to the ancient deity EL or AL of Sumeria, but the major deity was transformed into a word referring to the primary deity of Israel.

Just as in English when we say God, we're not referring to the Visgoth deity, Gott, the origin of the word God we use today,to refer to the Creator.

Answer 3

Aten was the god of Ankhnaten, not Amun. Amun/Amun-Re was cast aside, along with the others.

If one attributes any legitimacy to the idea of the Israelite captivity in Egypt, than Aten was likely the origins of Hebrew monotheism as well.

But for Christians, if it ain't in an arbitrary collection of bronze age stories, they'll ignore it.

Answer 4

Judaism took a lot of its religion from the Ancient Egyptians. The 10 Commandments came from The Book Of The Dead.

Answer 5

what the f are u talking about moses brother was Haroun